beavering

Definitions

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n. Hunting or trapping beaver

Etymologies

beaver +‎ -ing (Wiktionary)

Examples

A Beaver is credited with a haphazard way of gnawing round and round a tree till somehow it tumbles, and when a chopper deviates in the least from the correct form, the exact right cut in the exact right place, he is said to be "beavering"; therefore, while "working like a Beaver" is high praise, "beavering" a tree is a term of unmeasured reproach, and

The Executive Summary was invented by the first researcher (circa, 2923 bc) who, after beavering away through months of extensive and thorough investigation of a problem and producing a 200 page tome documenting the results (details, as well as options/recommendations), realized that no one who had originally commissioned said document ever read it.

One thing is for certain the Swamp and similar places will still be there and all the crap we have to deal with will still be beavering away theiving, fighting, frauding and generally putting one over on the decent folk who have to pay for it. on April 6, 2010 at 2: 19 pm PC Stavros

Indeed, along this new road -- a road broader than any market capitalism has previously traveled -- the world's biggest challenges represent the biggest business opportunities -- and not only for large corporations but also for all those entrepreneurs beavering away in garages around the world.

From the outside a newspaper looks, to most people, like a unitary organisation: a battalion of beavering journalists led by the directing mind of the editor towards the sunny uplands of enlightenment.